Justification:Solea triophthalma has been assessed as Data Deficient. This species is harvested by bottom trawl fisheries and using beach seines. However, there is no available information on harvest levels and abundance. Monitoring of the harvest levels of this species is needed to determine if this species is undergoing significant declines in abundance before a more accurate assessment of conservation status can be made.

Solea triophthalma is a demersal species that can be found over sand bottoms (Desoutter 1990) at a depth range of 10 to 30 m. It is also known to enter lagoons. Its diet consists of molluscs and other species of invertebrates. This species has a pelagic larval stage (J.G. Nielsen pers. comm. 2009).

Solea triophthalma is a commercially landed fish and is caught using bottom trawls and beach seines (FAO 1990), however there is no information concerning landings. This species is also likely to be taken as by-catch in other bottom trawl fisheries operating within its range. The Gulf of Guinea is reported to be overfished and several demersal and pelagic fish species are over-exploited. The Gulf of Guinea also shows signs of ecosystem stress (NOAA 2003). Without landings and abundance data for this species it is difficult to determine what impact these threats are having on the population numbers.